{"id":4658,"date":"2019-10-11T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4658"},"modified":"2019-10-11T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:11:21","slug":"the-black-rose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/the-black-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">Four Elements Book 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1570706753207blob.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1570706753207blob.png 400w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1570706753207blob-100x150.png 100w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1570706753207blob-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1570706753207blob-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Max Long enjoyed a pleasant, if austere, life in the small\nmountain town of Shadow pines. Things had been quiet\u2014until he discovered the\nelements obeyed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As if learning vampires truly existed didn\u2019t shock him to\nhis core already, Max grapples with the reality that he&#8217;s been given real\nmagic. He has the power of all four elements at his fingertips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They say every good private eye story starts with a crying\ngirl walking through the door. Crystal hadn\u2019t been the first upset woman to ask\nhim for help, not in a town with a murder rate far worse than any big city.\nUnfortunately, he&#8217;d made the biggest mistake of all&#8230; falling in love. As if\nbecoming romantically entangled with a client didn\u2019t complicate matters enough,\nhe\u2019d fallen for a half-succubus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a group of senior citizens on a day trip go missing, Max suspects the local vampires have stopped caring about subtlety. People who rock the boat in Shadow Pines tend to disappear painfully, but if he doesn&#8217;t start making waves soon, his beloved home town will become nothing more than a graveyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/books\/\">Books Main<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Elements Book 2 Max Long enjoyed a pleasant, if austere, life in the small mountain town of Shadow pines. Things had been quiet\u2014until he discovered the elements obeyed him. As if learning vampires truly existed didn\u2019t shock him to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/the-black-rose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4658","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4658\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}